Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV
On his return to Pittsburgh from this, what turned out to be a fruitless mission, he spent seven months among the scattered white settlements in Western Penn. In the summer of 1774, in company with Messrs. Dean and others, he visited the Canada Indians. During, and for some time after the revolution, he was minister of Northampton, N. H., and in 1786 removed to East Windsor, where he died June 25, 1820, aged 71. His wife was the daughter of Dr. Pomeroy and niece of Dr. Wheelock, whose Memoirs he published in connexion with Dr. Parish in 1811.-Ep.
2 Joseru Jounson was born near Norwich about the year 1750. His father served near Lake George in 1757. At the age of 15, Joseph became a school. master as above stated, and was so employed for two years. He fell off, however, from this life of regularity afterwards, and went on a whaling voyage. Returning in 1771, he fell sick at his native place, which circumstance had such an effect on him, that he became quite religious. He was afterwards licensed to preach among the Six Nations, and was very faithful to the American cause during the revolution. It is said that he was not inferior to Samson Occum as a Preacher. Axren. See also Wheelock's Narrative, 1775.
3 Jacoz Fowzer, a Montauk Indian was born in 1750. He was approved asa Teacher in 1765, and taught for several years after among the Six Nations and N.E. tribes. Things, however, did not go well with him, and in 1774, he re-